Shape and position of animal's eyes

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Shape and position of animal's eyes.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2332.4

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

LithuanianBalys Legends No. 281.

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Filed under Origin and nature of animals' eyes.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Why hare has deep-set eyes. (Cf. A2239.1.)Why crab lifts eye out of body or has eye behind. (Cf. A2231.10, A2231.1.3.)Why frog's eyes bulge out

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Origin of animals' eyes Number of animal's eyes Size of animals' eyes Color of animal's eyes "Blindness" in animals. Animals really or supposedly blind

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